Jess Wade
{{Short description|British physicist and science communicator (born 1988)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Jess Wade
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|BEM}}
| birth_name = Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1988|10}}
| birth_place = Manchester, England
| image = Jess Wade - 2017 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Wade in 2017
| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/56219
| thesis_title = Nanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices
| thesis_year = 2016
| doctoral_advisor = Ji-Seon Kim
| education = South Hampstead High School
Chelsea College of Arts
| alma_mater = Imperial College London (MSc, PhD)
| fields = Materials science
Chiral materials
Circular polarisation
| awards = {{Plainlist|
- Rosalind Franklin Award (2024)
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2024)
- British Empire Medal (2019)
- Nature's 10 (2018)
- I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! (2016)}}
| website = {{Official URL}}
| workplaces = Imperial College London
| known_for = Plastic electronics
Public engagement
WISE Campaigning
}}
Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|BEM}} (born October 1988) is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, specialising in Raman spectroscopy. Her research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).{{Google scholar id}}{{EuropePMC}} Her public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) advocates for women in physics as well as tackling systemic biases such as gender and racial bias on Wikipedia.{{cite news|last=Wade|first=Jessica|year=2019|title=This is why I've written 500 biographies of female scientists on Wikipedia|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/science-women-wikipedia-biography-sexism-academia-physics-a-level-a8773631.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/science-women-wikipedia-biography-sexism-academia-physics-a-level-a8773631.html |archive-date=8 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Curtis|first=Cara|year=2019|title=This physicist has written over 500 biographies of women scientists on Wikipedia|url=https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/19/physicist-has-written-over-500-biographies-female-scientists-wikipedia/|website=thenextweb.com|publisher=The Next Web|quote="Out of the 700 entries Wade has published so far, six biographies have been removed."|access-date=10 June 2019|archive-date=4 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804235220/https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/19/physicist-has-written-over-500-biographies-female-scientists-wikipedia/|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|last1=O’Reilly|first1=Nicola|title=Why we're creating Wikipedia profiles for BAME scientists|journal=Nature|year=2019|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/d41586-019-00812-8|s2cid=150864233|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00812-8|access-date=29 June 2020|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802114942/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00812-8|url-status=live}}
Early life and education
Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade was born in October 1988.{{cite web |title=Jessica Alice Feinmann WADE |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/YoCfN1ydjKsT5eNdYPPTNgVKbqk/appointments |author=Anon|website=gov.uk|publisher=Companies House|location=London|year=2022 |access-date=23 October 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024022325/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/YoCfN1ydjKsT5eNdYPPTNgVKbqk/appointments|archive-date=2022-10-24}} She is the daughter of two physicians.{{cite magazine|last1=Highfield|first1=Roger|last2=Wade|first2=Jess|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jess-wade-wikipedia-diversity|title=We're all to blame for Wikipedia's huge sexism problem|magazine=Wired|date=4 July 2019|access-date=4 July 2019|archive-date=2 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802164244/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jess-wade-wikipedia-diversity|url-status=live}} Her grandfather Leslie Feinmann was also a physician who was born in a Jewish ghetto in Manchester to a Russian-speaking mother and a father of Lithuanian Jewish and German Jewish descent.{{cite web | url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/elozor-leslie-feinmann | title=Elozor Leslie Feinmann | RCP Museum | access-date=12 October 2022 | archive-date=13 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013160401/https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/elozor-leslie-feinmann | url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://mobile.twitter.com/jesswade/status/834158314099507202|title=Dr Jess Wade 👩🏻🔬 on Twitter: "My grandfather "born into a Jewish ghetto in Manchester, of a 🇷🇺 speaking mother + 🇱🇹 🇩🇪 father" #1DayWithoutUs" / Twitter|date=12 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012234429/https://mobile.twitter.com/jesswade/status/834158314099507202 |access-date=1 October 2023|archive-date=12 October 2022 }}{{failed verification|date=March 2020}} She was privately educated at South Hampstead High School, graduating in 2007. Wade subsequently enrolled in a foundation course in art and design at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, and in 2012 completed a Master of Science (MSci) degree in physics at Imperial College London. She continued at Imperial, completing her PhD in physics in 2016, where her work in nanometrology in organic semiconductors was supervised by Ji-Seon Kim.
Research and career
Wade's research interests are in materials science, chiral materials and circular polarisation. {{As of|2020}}, Wade is a postdoctoral research associate in plastic electronics in the solid-state physics group at Imperial College London, focusing on developing and characterising light-emitting polymer thin films, working with Alasdair Campbell and Matthew Fuchter.{{cite book|last1=Wade|first1=Jess|last2=Campbell|first2=Alasadair|last3=Wan|first3=Li|last4=Fuchter|first4=Matthew|last5=So|first5=Franky|last6=Adachi|first6=Chihaya|last7=Kim|first7=Jang-Joo|editor3-first=Jang-Joo|editor3-last=Kim|editor2-first=Chihaya|editor2-last=Adachi|editor1-first=Franky|editor1-last=So|title=Organic Light Emitting Materials and Devices XXII|chapter=Strong induced chiroptical effects in light emitting polymer blends (Conference Presentation)|year=2018|pages=9|doi=10.1117/12.2321171|isbn=9781510620438|s2cid=139451421}} Wade and coworkers have recently discovered how to template chiral materials at functional interfaces.{{cite journal|last1=Wade|first1=Jess|last2=Salerno|first2=Francesco|last3=Kilbride|first3=Rachel C.|title=Controlling anisotropic properties by manipulating the orientation of chiral small molecules|journal=Nature Chemistry|year=2022|volume=14 |issue=12 |pages=1383–1389 |doi=10.1038/s41557-022-01044-6|pmid=36302869 |bibcode=2022NatCh..14.1383W |hdl=10044/1/99670 |s2cid=253183615 |hdl-access=free}}
{{As of|2022|11}}, according to Web of Science, she has published 59 items and been cited 1,124 times.Web Of Science, accessed 1 November 2022. Note that WOS returns J Wade and JF Wade in a simple search for "Wade, Jessica".
= Public engagement =
Wade has contributed to public engagement to increase gender equality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. She represented the UK on the United States Department of State funded International Visitor Leadership Program Hidden No More, and served on the WISE Campaign Young Women's Board and Women's Engineering Society (WES) Council, working with teachers across the country through the Stimulating Physics Network (including keynote talks at education fairs and teacher conferences). Wade has been critical of expensive campaigns to encourage girls into science where there is an implication that only a small minority would be interested, or that girls can study the "chemical composition of lipsticks and nail varnish". She estimates that £5m or £6m is spent in the UK to promote a scientific career for women but with little measurement of the results.
Wade coordinated a team for the 6th International Women in Physics Conference, resulting in an invitation to discuss the Institute of Physics (IOP) gender balance work in Germany. She also supports the engagement of school students through school activities and festivals, and the organisation of a series of events for girls at Imperial College London, which she has funded with grants from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Biochemical Society. In 2015 Wade won the science engagement activity I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! and received £500, which she used to run a greenlight4girls day in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. She has also written a children's book on materials and nanoscience called Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small. The book is illustrated by Melissa Castrillón and is published by Walker Books.{{Cite web|title=Walker Books – Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small|url=https://www.walker.co.uk/Nano-The-Spectacular-Science-of-the-Very-Very-Small-9781406394603.aspx|access-date=9 October 2023|website=walker.co.uk}}
Wade serves on the IOP London and South East Committee, the IOP Women in Physics Committee and the Juno transparency and opportunity committee at Imperial. She cites her influences as Sharmadean Reid, Lesley Cohen, Jenny Nelson and Angela Saini, particularly her book Inferior. Her outreach work has been covered by NPR, the BBC,{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45717060|title=Women in science: 'We want to be accepted into the club'|first1=Marie|last1=Jackson|first2=Jennifer|last2=Scott|year=2018|publisher=BBC News|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=17 December 2018|archive-date=11 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211031617/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45717060|url-status=live}} Sky News, HuffPost, ABC News, Physics World, El País, CNN, Nature,{{cite journal|last1=Wade|first1=Jess|last2=Zaringhalam|first2=Maryam|title=Why we're editing women scientists onto Wikipedia|journal=Nature|year=2018|publisher=Springer Nature|doi=10.1038/d41586-018-05947-8|s2cid=186774096|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05947-8|access-date=17 December 2018|archive-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211040212/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05947-8|url-status=live}} New Scientist,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532680-800-jess-wades-one-woman-mission-to-diversify-wikipedias-science-stories/|title=Jess Wade's one-woman mission to diversify Wikipedia's science stories|first=Joshua|last=Howgego|website=New Scientist|access-date=29 June 2020|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802141128/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532680-800-jess-wades-one-woman-mission-to-diversify-wikipedias-science-stories/|url-status=live}} and The Guardian.
Wade was interviewed as part of TEDx London Women, held on 1 December 2018.{{cite web |title=TEDxLondonWomen #ShowingUp |url=https://tedxlondon.com/attend/TEDxLondonWomen2018/ |access-date=15 January 2019 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001161735/https://tedxlondon.com/attend/TEDxLondonWomen2018/ |url-status=live }}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpOqdB6RDU A voice for diversity in science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511192659/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpOqdB6RDU |date=11 May 2020 }} Video of Wade's TEDxLondonWomen interview 1 December 2018 With Ben Britton and Christopher Jackson, she co-authored "The reward and risk of social media for academics" in the journal Nature Reviews Chemistry.{{Cite journal |last1=Wade |first1=Jessica |last2=Jackson |first2=Chris |last3=Britton |first3=Ben |date=18 July 2019 |title=The reward and risk of social media for academics |journal=Nature Reviews Chemistry |language=en |volume=3 |issue=8 |pages=459–461 |doi=10.1038/s41570-019-0121-3 |hdl=10044/1/71949 |s2cid=198137018 |issn=2397-3358|hdl-access=free }} {{closed access}} In May 2025, Wade was a guest panellist on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time, in an episode discussing the physicist Lise Meitner.{{Cite episode|first=Melvynn|last=Bragg |title=Lise Meitner |series=In Our Time |series-link=In Our Time (radio series) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bt7s |accessdate=9 May 2025 |network= |station=BBC Radio 4 |date=8 May 2025 }}
=Wikipedia contributions=
{{See also|Gender bias on Wikipedia}}
Wade has made a large contribution to a Wikipedia campaign that encourages the creation of Wikipedia articles about notable female academics, in order to promote female role models in STEM. Wade has created new Wikipedia biographical articles to raise the profile of minorities in STEM.{{cite news|title=Why are so few women biographies included in Wikipedia?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hs3sn|newspaper=BBC Newsday|date=25 July 2019|access-date=28 July 2019|quote=She's been writing biographies of women and other minorities in science and engineering since 2017 and adds a new entry almost on a daily basis.|archive-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803034015/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hs3sn|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pride.com/news/2019/1/02/scientist-updating-wikipedia-women-poc-lgbtq-history|title=This Scientist Is Updating Wikipedia with Women, POC, & LGBTQ+ History|date=2 January 2019|website=pride.com|first=Zachary|last= Zane|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=20 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820105152/https://www.pride.com/news/2019/1/02/scientist-updating-wikipedia-women-poc-lgbtq-history|url-status=live}} As of February 2020, she had written over 900 biographies on Wikipedia.{{cite web |title=Physicist writes 900 Wikipedia entries to boost diversity in science |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-11/physicist-writes-900-wikipedia-entries-to-boost-diversity-in-science/ |website=ITV News |date=11 February 2020 |access-date=13 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=27 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527160929/https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-11/physicist-writes-900-wikipedia-entries-to-boost-diversity-in-science/ |url-status=live }} By January 2021, this figure had risen to 1,200. By February 2024, it was over 2,100.{{cite news|title=Ancient Roman Writings Revealed |first=Victoria |last=Gill|newspaper=BBC Inside Science|date=8 February 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w12r}}{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Arman |date=2022-11-18 |title=I’ve Made More Than 1,700 Wikipedia Entries on Women Scientists and I’m Not Yet Done |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-pages-women-scientists-jessica-wade-stem/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}
On 12 April 2019, The Washington Post published an op-ed titled "The black hole photo is just one example of championing women in science",{{cite news |last=Zaringhalam |first=Maryam |last2=Wade |first2=Jess |date=12 April 2019 |title=The black hole photo is just one example of championing women in science |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/it-matters-who-we-champion-in-science/2019/04/12/50a1781a-5d3d-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416073320/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/it-matters-who-we-champion-in-science/2019/04/12/50a1781a-5d3d-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html |archive-date=16 April 2019}} co-authored by Zaringhalam and Wade, advocating for increased recognition for women who contribute to science. After the first image of a black hole was released, media coverage celebrated Katie Bouman's role leading the creation of the image processing algorithm.{{Cite news |last=Ellis-Petersen |first=Hannah |date=2019-04-11 |title=Katie Bouman: the 29-year-old whose work led to first black hole photo |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/11/katie-bouman-black-hole-photo |access-date=2023-10-29 |issn=0261-3077}} The op-ed emphasized the power of social media like Twitter and collaborative information repositories like Wikipedia for crediting women's scientific contributions.
As an example of insufficient coverage in the English-language Wikipedia of women in science, the article points to the deletion of the biography of Clarice Phelps.{{cite news |first=Phoebe|last= Southworth |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/07/physicist-embroiled-sexism-row-wikipedia-female-scientists-wrote/ |title=Physicist accuses Wikipedia editors of sexism after female scientists she wrote profiles for tagged 'not notable enough' |website=telegraph.co.uk |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 December 2019 |access-date=24 February 2020 |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127032027/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/07/physicist-embroiled-sexism-row-wikipedia-female-scientists-wrote/ |url-status=live }} Wade created a short Wikipedia biography of Phelps in September 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90339700/a-deleted-wikipedia-page-speaks-volumes-about-its-biggest-problem |title=A deleted Wikipedia page speaks volumes about its biggest problem |first=Claire|last=Jarvis|work=Fastcompany.com |date=25 April 2019 |access-date=1 March 2020 |archive-date=29 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429091704/https://www.fastcompany.com/90339700/a-deleted-wikipedia-page-speaks-volumes-about-its-biggest-problem |url-status=live }} The deletion of that article on 11 February 2019{{cite web |last=Jarvis |first=Claire |date=25 April 2019 |title=What a Deleted Profile Tells Us About Wikipedia's Diversity Problem |url=https://undark.org/2019/04/25/wikipedia-diversity-problem/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428162539/https://undark.org/2019/04/25/wikipedia-diversity-problem/ |archive-date=28 April 2019 |access-date=24 February 2020 |work=Undark.org}} led to a prolonged editorial discussion and its repeated restoration and re-deletion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/wikipedia-clarice-phelps/|title=Wikipedia doesn't think this Black female scientist is notable enough for a page|date=29 April 2019|website=dailydot.com|publisher=The Daily Dot|first=Samira|last=Sadeque|access-date=6 March 2020|archive-date=30 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430042820/https://www.dailydot.com/irl/wikipedia-clarice-phelps/|url-status=live}} Katrina Krämer wrote in Chemistry World:{{cite news |last=Krämer |first=Katrina |date=3 July 2019 |title=Female scientists' pages keep disappearing from Wikipedia – what's going on? |work=Chemistry World |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry |url=https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/female-scientists-pages-keep-disappearing-from-wikipedia--whats-going-on/3010664.article |url-status=live |access-date=3 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101094843/https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/female-scientists-pages-keep-disappearing-from-wikipedia--whats-going-on/3010664.article |archive-date=1 November 2020}}
{{Quote|text=In Phelps' case, her name didn’t appear in the articles announcing tennessine's discovery. She wasn't profiled by mainstream media. Most mentions of her work are on her employer's website – a source that's not classed as independent by Wikipedia standards and therefore not admissible when it comes to establishing notability. The [Wikipedia] community consensus was that her biography had to go.}}
Wade told Chemistry World she believes such omissions of scientific researchers from coverage in Wikipedia are regrettable, stating her impression that it accepts entries for even the most obscure popular-media figures. By January 2020, there was a consensus to restore the article, as by then new sources had become available.{{Cite web|url=http://en.wikibedia.ru/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2020_January#31_January_2020|title=Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 January Wikipedia|website=en.wikibedia.ru|access-date=9 March 2020|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802175925/http://en.wikibedia.ru/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2020_January#31_January_2020|url-status=live}} As of 2019, of the 600 articles about female scientists Wade had written, 6 had been deleted for not meeting Wikipedia's criteria for notability.
=Awards and honours=
Wade has received several awards for contributions to science, science communication, diversity, and inclusion. In 2015, Wade was awarded the Institute of Physics Early Career Physics Communicator Prize and the Imperial College Union award for contribution to college life, and was the winner of the Colour Zone in I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here, an online science engagement project run by Mangorolla CIC. The next year, Wade received the Institute of Physics's Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize for Women in Physics 2016.
In 2017, Wade won the Robert Perrin Award for Materials Science from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and Imperial College's Julia Higgins Medal in recognition of her work to support gender equality. She was invited to the interdisciplinary science conference Science Foo Camp at the Googleplex in California.
In 2018, Wade won the Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize for "acting as an internationally-recognised ambassador for STEM". In December she was named as one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in science that year.{{Cite journal|first1=Elizabeth|last1=Gibney|author-link1=Elizabeth Gibney|first2= Ewen|last2= Callaway|first3=David |last3=Cyranoski
|first4=Nisha |last4=Gaind|first5=Jeff |last5=Tollefson|first6=Rachel |last6=Courtland|first7=Yao-Hua |last7=Law|first8=Brendan |last8=Maher
|first9=Holly |last9=Else|first10=Davide|last10= Castelvecchi|date=2018|title=Ten people who mattered this year|doi=10.1038/d41586-018-07683-5 |pmid=30563976|journal=Nature|volume=564|pages=325–335| issue= 7736|doi-access=free}} She received an honourable mention in the Wikimedian of the Year award by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, for her "year long effort to write about underrepresented scientists and engineers on Wikipedia", and the following year was chosen as Wikimedian of the Year by her national chapter, Wikimedia UK.{{cite web |url=https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2019 |title=UK Wikimedian of the Year 2019 |website=Wikimedia.org.uk |date=18 July 2019 |access-date=5 February 2020 |archive-date=17 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517144654/https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2019 |url-status=live }}
Wade was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to gender diversity in science.{{London Gazette| issue = 62666| date = 8 June 2019| page = B30| supp = y}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/birthday-honours-lists-2019|title=Birthday Honours lists 2019|date=7 June 2019|website=gov.uk|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-date=5 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005142327/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/birthday-honours-lists-2019|url-status=live}} Her employer honoured her that year with its Leadership Award for Societal Engagement.{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191487/societal-engagement-recognised-2019-presidents-awards/|title=Societal engagement recognised in 2019 President's Awards for Excellence|date=7 June 2019|website=Imperial College London – News|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-date=20 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820110104/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/191487/societal-engagement-recognised-2019-presidents-awards/|url-status=live}} Also in 2019, Wade was named as the 44th "Most Influential Woman in UK Tech" by Computer Weekly.{{cite web|url=https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252471156/Computer-Weekly-announces-the-Most-Influential-Women-in-UK-Tech-2019|title=Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2019|last=McDonald|first=Clare|date=25 September 2019|website=ComputerWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=23 January 2020|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125002059/https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252471156/Computer-Weekly-announces-the-Most-Influential-Women-in-UK-Tech-2019|url-status=live}} During the same year, Casio released a scientific calculator in Spain bearing Wade's picture in a series of 12 calculators commemorating historically notable female scientists.{{cite news |last1=Perla Mateo |first1=Maria Pilar |title=Calculadoras ilustradas con científicas |url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/sociedad/2019/02/19/calculadoras-ilustradas-con-cientificas-casio-1293482-310.html |access-date=28 July 2020 |work=Heraldo de Aragón |date=19 February 2019 |language=es |trans-title=Calculators illustrated with women scientists |archive-date=17 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017141340/https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/sociedad/2019/02/19/calculadoras-ilustradas-con-cientificas-casio-1293482-310.html |url-status=live }}
In 2023, she was one of the six women chosen by Nature to comment on their plans for International Women's Day. The others were Gihan Kamel, Martina Anto-Ocrah, Sandra Diaz, Aster Gebrekirstos and Tanya Monro.{{Cite journal |date=2023-03-08 |title=Celebrate women in science — today, and every day |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=615 |issue=7951 |pages=187 |doi=10.1038/d41586-023-00670-5|pmid=36890375 |bibcode=2023Natur.615..187. |s2cid=257380632 |doi-access=free }} Also in 2023, Wade was awarded the President’s Medal for Outreach from Imperial College London for her work in promoting diversity in STEM.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}
In 2024, Wade received a University Research Fellowship and the Rosalind Franklin Award from the Royal Society for "her achievements in functional materials and outstanding project which will support early career women scientists to pursue academic careers in materials sciences".{{cite web |title=Medals and Awards: Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture |url=https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/rosalind-franklin-award/ |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=29 August 2024}}{{Cite web |date=2024-08-28 |title=Three Imperial researchers have won prestigious Royal Society awards |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/255797/three-imperial-researchers-have-prestigious-royal/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Imperial College London |language=en}}
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{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0530qf2/p0530ppc|title=Cartoon by Jess Wade – Biased Science, as interpreted and illustrated by audience member Jess Wade – The Everyday Effect of Unconscious Bias, All in the Mind|publisher=BBC Radio 4|website=bbc.co.uk|access-date=31 July 2018|archive-date=3 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303152224/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0530qf2/p0530ppc|url-status=live}}
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